Opnion: Elon Musk's courtship with MAGA has driven X into misinformation abyss

As for our presidential race here at home, Musk's misleading election claims on X were viewed 1.2 billion times between January and July of this year, according to the Center for Countering Digital Hate. — AP

Multibillionaires are eccentric. It's common knowledge, like water is wet, fire is hot, Joker: Folie à Deux is a terrible film.

From Jeff Bezos to Peter Thiel to Richard Branson to Howard Hughes (adjusting for inflation), they do weird things: shoot themselves into space, invest in treatments to "cure" aging, buy islands and wash their hands a lot.